Proper Weimar GErman Flashcards
German king from 1888-1918
Kaiser WIlhelm 2
Cheif Ministers
Junkers
Local Government body
Bundestrat
German Parliament
Reichstag
No of states GErmany was made up of
314
Prussia dominates GErmany
1861
german empire proclaimed from paris
1871
Social Democratic Party
SPD
desire that GErmany would become a great world power
Weltpolitik
policy of building overseas colonies
place in the sun
Competition between Germany and Britain to build ships
Naval Race
If led by a strong monarch germany would be great
Autocracy
Germany is unified
1871
Country should have a powerful military force
Militarism
Battleships
Dreadnoughts
Industrial rate down by 2/3
1913
Potato Crop destroyed by frost
1916
Act that enabled the president to make descisions without the reichstag
article 48
War Reparations
6.6 million
Put down the sparticists
Freikorps
Treaty of versailles is signed
28th June 1919
Kapp putsch
March 1920
No. of Freikorps who tried to overthrow the Weimar Republic
5000
No. of political assassinations
350